Paper-roll mounting for autographic registers



- March 19,1929.

T. w. WIDENMANN ET AL 1,705,514

PAPER ROLL MOUNTING FOR AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTERS Original Filed Jan. 2. 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 ATTORNEY.

March 19, 1929.

T. W. WIDENMANN ET AL PAPER ROLL MOUNTING FOR AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTERS Original Filed Jan. 2. 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet ATTORNEY.

I Patented Mar. 19, 1929.

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Application filed. January 2, 1925 Serial No. 2195. ReneW'edJune 29, 1928.

This invention relates to a paper roll mounting particularly for autographic registers and the object ofthe invention is to pro vide a means for holding a series of paper rolls-in alignment so that the sheets may he fed-from an autographie register in superimedges thereof in is to provide an autographic register in which the.

rolls may be easily removed from the register or easily replaced therein and when positioned in the register the rolls are automatically brought to alignment by the auton'iatic tension device. r A further object of the invention is to provide an autographic register which may be i very easily loaded and unloaded, which maintains the paper stripsin the rolls in alignment and which maintains a-tension on the rolls yieldably resisting withdrawal of the paper strips from the rolls.

These objects and the several novel features of the invention are hereinafter more fully described and claimed and the preferred form of construction by which these objects are attained is shown in the accompanying drawings in which i Fig. 1 is a horizontal section through an autographic registerembodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of the register taken from the side of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 83- of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4; is a perspective view of the roll tension device. V

Fig. 5 is a section taken on line 5-5 of Fig. 4:.

As shown in Fig. 1 the autographic register is provided with a base 1 on which the register casing 2 is mounted. The casing 2 is provided with a removable side 3 through which the machine may be loaded or unloaded. The member 4: is secured to one side of the casing 2 by the screws or rivets 5 and this member 4: is formed of heavy sheet metal with the struck out portions or bosses 6. These bosses are all of exactly the same length with the end faces thereofgin the same plane: and

a stud shaft 7 is secured to each boss and ex tendsacross wise ofthe casing 2 at a right angle to the face of the respective boss. The

paper rolls 8 are slipped over the stud shafts 1 7 as shown in Figs'l, 2-and 3 and are rotatable t-hereon'and each stud shaft fat the end protruding from the paper roll is provided with'a pair of vertical slots 9 and 10.- Amember 11 shown more particularly in Fig. i is provided havin a central verticalnotch 12 t3 providing edges 13 and 14 adapted to engage in the slots 9 and 10 and the member 11 is provided with struck up lugs 15 and Riley which the device may be grasped in the fin gers. Themember 11 is also provided with an angularly extending-portion 17 to which 1 a flat spring 18 is securedby the bolt 19am the angular portion 17 causes theisprin'g 18 to extend outwardly from the member ll-to en gage the end ofthe respective paper rollas shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

In operation the side 3 of the autographic j register is removed and. the rolls 8 are slipped onto the stud shafts 7 until the paper rolls engage the bosses:6 as shown in .Fig. 1. At this time the members 11 are grasped by the portions 15 and 16 and by inserting the edges 13 and 14 in the slots'9 and 10 the member 11 may be moved downwardly over the ends of the stud shafts until the upper ends of the notches 12 engage the stud plane the paper rolls are thus mounted in alignment. The rolls are unwound by drawing the sheets therefrom to the right of Fig. 1 and therefore the superimposed sheets of the different rolls are in alignment at the opposite edges. The springs 18 whileholding therolls in proper position also act as roll tension devices and yieldably resist ro- From the foregoing description it becomes provides a evident that the device is very simple and efe ficient in operatioinwill not easily get out of order, is composed of few parts and isof consequent low manufacturing cost and provides av device which accomplishes the objects described. a i V c Having thus fully described our invention, its utility and mode of operation, whatwe claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is c 1 l. A mounting for paper rolls comprising a stationary supporting member having a seriesiof bosses extending therefrom, the faces of the bosses all being in the same plane, a stud shaft secured in each boss and extending at a right angle to; the face thereof, a paper roll rotatably mounted on each stud shaft, the

end of each stud shaft opposite the boss being provided with a pair of slots on opposite sides thereof, a sheet metal member engagingm the slots of each stud'shaft, the upper edge of each sheet metalmember being'bent outward- 1y at an angle, and a flat spring secured to the bent portion of each sheet metal member and extending outwardly into engagement with the endof the respective paper roll.

'2; A mounting'for paper rolls comprising a stationary supporting member having a series 0f bosses extendingtherefrom, a stud shaft extending from each boss, the bosses being eaeh'provided wlth a fiat face about the respective stud shaft and all fiat'faces being in the same plane, a paper roll rotatably'mounted on each stud shaft and engaging the flat face of the respective boss, each stud shaft being provided with a pair of slots in the end opposite the boss, a member engaging in the said slots of each stud shaft, and a spring stud shaft secured in each boss, the bosses all having an end surface inthe same plane, a

paper roll rotatably mounted on each-stud shaft, the unsupported end of the. shafts being notched, and an aligning and tensioning device consisting of a bifurcated member pro viding. a central -notch,"the oppositesides of which engage in the notch provided therefor in the shaft end to support the same in place,

a spring member carried by the bifurcated member and yieldingly engaging the .r'e- V spective roll end.

'In testimony whereof we sign this specifi-.

cation.

rnnonoan w. iwiDENMANit v MARCUS a. HARRIS. 

